I just got back from Amphenol’s Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) in Nashua, New Hampshire, and man, am I pumped! Meeting with the technical leaders of Amphenol divisions around the world was awesome, as so many new and innovative interconnect products and technologies are emerging. We have the opportunity to capitalize on these innovations in our own unique way, accelerating Amphenol’s growth and technical interconnect leadership.

Amphenol filter connector customers have relied on our products as a primary means of defense against EMI emissions and susceptibility threats for decades. These customers have traditionally been happy with lumped element Insertion Loss data up to 100 MHz. As data frequencies have broken the 100 MHz barrier and are well into the GHz region, the world of 3D EM modeling has become necessary for predicting system performance.

When working for a company that’s been in the same 675,000 square foot facility for close to 85 years, you’d think we wouldn’t need to expand on something so large. When you have two major floods within five years of one another that resulted in four feet of water throughout the entire facility, suddenly an addition to the Amphenol Aerospace location doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

Our third Lights, Camera, Connection! review is for a film from the James Bond universe. We could probably dissect any movie in the James Bond collection, with respect to connector technology use. It would be easy to talk about the electrical cables without connectors that spelled doom for Oddjob in Goldfinger, or the high-power connectors likely used in Scaramanga’s Solex Agitator in The Man with the Golden Gun, or even the high-speed board level connectors that were probably used in the satellite that emitted deadly shock waves in Goldeneye. Instead, we’ll shift our focus away from any films that have “Gold” in the title and take a look at the 1967 spy thriller, You Only Live Twice.